This week something popped up on a blog about Burning Man using the term Shirtcocking. I have to admit that I had to go to google which led me to the Urban Dictionary which provided the answers I needed. Urban Dictionary provides the definition of Shirtcocking as “verb: meaning to wear only a shirt and no pants or underwear, hence just a shirt and cock. However, can also be applied to girls. May have first been created at Burning Man.” Seems perfectly appropriate to me but the blog post was calling for an end to shirtcocking at Burning Man. Not an end to cocks on display mind you, just a call for either the shirt to come off as well or pants to go on.

It turns out that I’ve been an occasional shirtcocker for years and had no idea! Sometimes when you want the freedom of being naked but a little more warmth is necessary than nudity provides, popping a shirt on solves all the problems. It’s so comfortable to be pants-free. Sleeping nude is pretty much a must for me but on those rare occasions when you need to be a little warmer a t-shirt is the best option, not pants.

The subtle tease of a sexy butt poking out from under a tank top or t-shirt is pretty darned sexy too. It feels a little more voyeuristic and unexpected than a completely nude man. My name is Brenton and I’m a proud shirtcocker!

And then there are those of us of fair skin who need to keep a shirt on, tee or regular to protect our skin, sun screened though it may be, from the sun. Some how the sun doesn’t seem to burn our legs and the shirt seems to shde our butts and cocks as well. Oh yes, I am a shirt cocker from way back and will continue to be so.

I know of the term “shirtcocking” as I have been to Burning Man myself. As much as I love Burning Man, and the usually very Gay-friendly burners who go, anti-shirtcocking is a very homophobic ideology, Please make no mistake about it: homophobic it is. I’ve been to Burning Man where I learned of the term shirtcocking, & I got the distinct impression it was straight men lording their heteroness over the rest, “Please don’t highlight your penis by only wearing a shirt!!”. I know that many will say “but Burning Man is the epitome of Gay friendly”, and is mostly… Read more »

I didn’t know there was a name for it either, but I’ve been a shirtcocker most of my life. I’d prefer nude, but it’s just not possible in the Pacific NW of Canada – now on Galiano Island in the Strait of Georgia. We call it “Marine Temperate.”

I’m a Shirtcocker, I’m out and proud, I never knew it had a name. Shirtcocking allows me to walk through my house with windows and blinds open, and no one can see my happily flapping bits. What a waste.